VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO) -- Tests will be conducted on the body of a driver who was killed last evening when he clipped an ambulance on M-43, and rammed three more vehicles over a distance of several miles before flipping his Saturn Vue at a high rate of speed and striking ...More
NILES TOWNSHIP (WKZO) -- While questions still swirl as to why a Niles teenager may have shot his grandfather, the young suspect has been formally charged. Berrien County Judge Scott Schofield set bond at $100,000. Fourteen -year-old Dakotah Eliason appeared in court by video conferencing from the Berrien County Juvenile ...More
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- President Obama is making one last push to get his healthcare reform plan through Congress, saying that the republican alternative to push it through piece by piece will mean true reform will never happen.
After nearly a year of delay, and decades of debating the issue, West Michigan ...More
DETROIT (WKZO) - They voted in Baghdad and al Kut and KirKuk and in Detroit this weekend. The Embattled nation took one step closer to becoming an independent democracy, as voters filled 325 seats in their new parliament.
There were armed guards at the polling places in Iraq, but it was ...More
LANSING (WKZO) -- Legislation approved by a State House committee would allow the Pere Marquette Amtrak line to continue operations through September. There had been some doubt whether enough funding for the partly subsidized passenger line could be found by the Department of Transportation in time to get through the summer ...More
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- The Number of Toyota drivers who report their cars still have acceleration problems after they were “fixed” has now grown to 15. Toyota finds itself waist deep in allegations, and it may be putting the brakes on the recovery in west Michigan.
After seven straight months of positive ...More
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO) -- Senator Jim Bunning’s one man crusade to curb government spending has ended and the money is flowing again. If you are receiving unemployment insurance payments, what do you need to do?
Norm Isotello with Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance agency says if jobless workers continued to ...More
DETROIT (WKZO) -- The February sales figures are out and they were better than expected for the big three, who were all in positive territory for the first time in years, but telling for Toyota which dropped 9% because of their recall problems.
Ford had the best numbers with a 43 ...More
UNDATED (WKZO) -- Unemployed Michigan residents will be watching Congress this week as it tries to pass an extension of jobless benefits that lapsed at midnight. A bill that would have extended unemployment aid through March stalled last week when Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky objected to it.
The Republican and ...More
LANSING (WKZO) -- House Speaker Andy Dillon is the latest democrat to formally jump into the race for governor. He made the formal announcement in Redford Township, his hometown yesterday But Dillon’s attempts to reach across the aisle have angered some in his own party.
Recent polls show only about ...More
